FCE loophole?

[fBaran]

Hey all. I just gor Fine Cut Express, and realized that it need 384mb ram, while i only have 256mb. Is there any way to fool the computer? I don't really care about the speed, as i figured it's gonna be slow on a G4 iBook anyhow. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[wordmunger]

Have you tried installing it? Sometimes these things just work. It will be painfully slow, though. Otherwise, RAM isn't that expensive. Might be time for an upgrade--just $98 to get yourself to 640 Megs.

 

[Flynnstone]

Max the RAM !

 

[SilentPanda]

It's not actually particularly slow on a G4 iBook... granted it's not as "fast" as a dual G5 but... yeah... you'll be okay for normal video editing... just don't try to splice together a feature film on it with a million effects and you should be okay.

 

[PensDevil]

no realtime

I think it will install and run okay, although not all that speedy with 256MB. The real-time effects that FCE2 adopted (introduced in FCP3) do not kcik in until you have 384MB of RAM. As alsways with OS X... the more RAM the better.